Sun, Jul 13
|Fall River
Lecture Series
Time & Location
Jul 13, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Fall River, 5 Water St, Fall River, MA 02721, USA
About the event
About:
Just before 0800 on Sunday, 7 December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched an air attack against American naval and military facilities on the Hawai’ian Island of Oah’u. With that action, the United States was hurled into the maelstrom that was the Second World War. The attack commander’s transmission of the code words “Tora, Tora, Tora!” signified that the strike force had achieved complete tactical surprise. Resultantly, the U.S. Pacific Fleet and Army facilities on the island were devastated. Dr. Stan Carpenter, Professor Emeritus from the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, addresses Japan’s strategic decision-making leading up to Operation Hawai’i and the actual execution of the attack as well as the significant details of that dark Sunday morning, in “Tora, Tora, Tora”: Pearl Harbor and the Coming of War.
Lecture is free with the purchase of general admission tickets to Battleship Cove.